Securing America's Borders

Biden’s DHS is either importing perfect angels over the southern border or breaching promise of security vetting By Todd Bensman as published September 26, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all of 2023, top Biden administration officials have repeatedly assured Americans that aspiring illegal border crossers would undergo “rigorous security … [Read more...] about New Records Show Biden’s DHS Accepting 99.7 Percent of Recent Aliens Applying for Entry Using CBP One

See Part II New Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme, Part III Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Posing Potential National Security Risks Entering via CBP One App and Senator Demands Biden Administration Answer Bensman Reports on ‘Abject Failure To Protect U.S. National Security Interests’ By Todd Bensman as published September 21, 2023 by the Center for … [Read more...] about Part I: New Records Show Biden DHS Has Approved Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants for Secretive Foreign Flights Directly into U.S. Airports

Conservatives who seek to defend the country must analyze and draw on Todd Bensman’s hard-won and operational insights, now. “They come in from all over Central America, Haiti, Africa, Indonesia and from all over South America; they just keep coming and keep coming and keep coming.”José, a Mexican criminal cartel operative interviewed by author Todd Bensman Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed … [Read more...] about New Book Review in The American Conservative: America Overrun, America Transformed

by MARTHA ROSENBERG, as published August 20, 2023 by The American Spectator Rosenberg: Working as a reporter and now as a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, you have done a lot of “shoe leather” reporting at the U.S. southern border — covering the Mexican drug wars and, in the last years, immigration. Unlike so many immigration reporters who rely on second hand reports, you … [Read more...] about American Spectator Interview with Bensman

Audiobook recording makes Overrun more accessible to a general reading public short on time By Todd Bensman for ToddBensman.com Thanks to strong sales and persistent public interest, Post Hill Press/Bombardier Books today released the audio edition of my book OVERRUN, How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history. It is available here at Barnes & Noble and at … [Read more...] about ‘Overrun’ Audio Book Now Available

By Todd Bensman as published August 14, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies (See related article in the Daily Mail.) AUSTIN, Texas – For nearly 30 months, White House border policies that have lured millions of foreign nationals to illegal river crossings have turned long stretches of the Rio Grande border into a disgusting, trash-clogged environmental sewer on both sides. All … [Read more...] about A Cynical Shell Game: The Biden administration’s sudden concern for the Rio Grande’s Mexican fawnsfoot mussel

By Todd Bensman as published August 12, 2023 in modified version by The Daily Mail AUSTIN, Texas — For nearly 30 months, welcoming White House border policies that have lured millions of foreign nationals to illegal river crossings have turned long stretches of the Rio Grande border into a disgusting, trash-clogged environmental sewer on both sides. Without the slightest protest from … [Read more...] about Daily Mail: Read TODD BENSMAN’s surreal tale of Biden’s battle to save river MUSSELS in the open sewer that is the Rio Grande’s illegal migrant crossroads

By Todd Bensman as published August 9, 2023 by the New York Post AUSTIN, Texas – If I’ve learned anything studying and reporting about illegal immigration for 15 years, it’s this: Champions of illegal immigration who don’t like a given new border-control measure will claim they never work. But when the activists really know – deep in their guts – that the … [Read more...] about NY Post: Dems hate Texas’ Rio Grande border barrier because it WORKS

By Todd Bensman as published August 4, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — The American left so hates this summer’s hit Sound of Freedom movie that their media have undertaken a campaign to discredit it. These generally assert that the film about a former ICE Homeland Security Investigations agent’s true-life crusade against cross-border child sex trafficking … [Read more...] about Border Sex Trafficking Cases Should Challenge Sound of Freedom Skeptics

A new Center for Immigration Studies video report highlights Texas Governor Abbott’s “Operation Hold the Line”, which has state police and National Guard block immigrants at the Rio Grande River’s edge, and President Biden’s undermining of the state’s efforts to enforce the laws. Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies’ senior national security fellow, captures the border war, showing … [Read more...] about VIDEO report from the frontier: A Cold Border War Breaks Out Between Abbott’s Texas and Biden’s White House